COVID safe cooling systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for minimizing the transmission of communicable diseases during beverage delivery are inefficient, expensive, and cumbersome, often requiring additional personnel and equipment, making it difficult to deliver beverages while maintaining safety and hygiene.
Innovation Solution
A cost-effective, ergonomically designed COVID-19 protection cooler system with a five-panel box structure, swiveling top panel, and anti-microbial features, including container holders, an ice chamber, and a rail movement system for easy transportation and deployment, which minimizes physical contact and allows for touchless beverage selection and payment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional beverage serving methods are used, then beverage delivery is simple, but transmission of communicable diseases occurs through direct and incidental contact between server, serving mechanism, and individuals
Solution Approach 1:
The cooler is divided into multiple individualized beverage dispensing ports, each with its own container holder. This segmentation allows each beverage to be accessed independently through separate openings, preventing contact between users and other users' beverages, while maintaining simple operation through individual access points.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where beverages are delivered through a cooler structure with individualized ports and container holders that act as mediators between the server and individuals. This intermediary system minimizes direct and incidental contact while still enabling beverage delivery.
2Reliability
If protective gear and additional equipment are used to minimize covid transmissions, then disease protection is improved, but the process becomes expensive and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The cooler design enables self-service beverage access where individuals can retrieve their own beverages through individualized ports without requiring servers to don protective gear or use complex protective mechanisms. The system protects against disease transmission through its inherent design rather than requiring additional protective equipment.
3Reliability
If multiple individualized beverage dispensing ports are used, then disease transmission is minimized, but the cooler structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The cooler structure integrates multiple functions into a unified design: the five-panel box structure with hinges provides both structural integrity and opening/closing functionality, while the lock hasp secures the cooler and prevents unauthorized access. The individualized ports and container holders simultaneously provide disease prevention and organized beverage storage, reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A covid protection cooler system is provided. The system includes a five-panel sided box structure. The box structure includes a back, bottom, front, left and right panels. The system also includes a top panel with back and side hinges. The back hinges allow the top panel to swivel between open and closed positions and the side hinges maintain the top panel in an open position for replenishing ice. The top panel includes a plurality of openings. The system includes a lock hasp positionable on the front panel and the top panel. The system includes a plurality of cylindrical container holders affixed to a top surface of the bottom panel. The exterior surfaces of the container holders and the interior surfaces of the five-panel box structure form an interior ice chamber. The system includes a water barrier liner on an interior surface of the ice chamber. System includes a drain plug.